Shutdown from Gnome Shell displays the Gentoo Prompt

wichtounet · n00b Joined: 17 Mar 2012 Posts: 42

Hi,

I've a little issue with my installation of Gnome Shell. When I do a shutdown or a reboot, the gentoo prompt (the one that is on Gentoo when installed with no window manager) is displayed during some seconds. (This prompt is not displayed during boot).

I'm pretty sure this has something to do with runlevel and/or rc-update but I didn't found what to change to avoid this behavior.

Here is my rc-update config:

eccerr0r · Advocate Joined: 01 Jul 2004 Posts: 2998 Location: USA

If you mean the "login" prompt

login:

This is always displayed but simply never shown because X11 is started. During boot, login is started behind the scenes and actually does try to show up, but X11 starts as it switches over to virtual terminal 7/8 and you never see it. You can ctrl-alt-f1 from X11 to see the prompt.

When you quit X11 for shutdown, it will switch back to virtual terminal 1 which once again exposes the login prompt. You may also be able to see it if you logout of your Gnome session.

I don't really see the problem showing this? If this is actually a "bash" prompt then this is a security hole but I don't think it's that easy to do that in a Gentoo install.

If something changed, likely X11/Gnome now switches back to the console it was started from upon exit... There may be a patch to X11/Gnome to stay on the dummy virtual terminal 7/8 upon exit... I don't know though... not enough of a problem for me to investigate and likely needs code changes.
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wichtounet · n00b Joined: 17 Mar 2012 Posts: 42

Thank you for your answer.

There are no other problems than visual problems. I find that ugly to switch back to a terminal visible only 2-3 seconds before really shutting down from Gnome. But I can live with that.

Arkhelion · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 7:19 pm Post subject:

You could try a splash, so that you wouldn't see the shutdown shell, nor the loading shell lines.
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wichtounet · n00b Joined: 17 Mar 2012 Posts: 42

Where can I find a good installation tutorial of a boot splash ?

I tried this: http://ronnybull.com/2011/08/11/gentoo-framebuffer-splash-image/

But it didn't worked on my case. I see a black screen during kernel bootup and then I see OpenRC logs as usual.

Apheus · Apprentice Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 182

I use this:

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Fbsplash

A little old and rusty, but works for me. You will have to recompile some packages with USE=static-libs, but emerge will tell you that.

Plymouth is a newer boot splash manager.